TUESDAY,SEPT.25,2001
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
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Tormod Ellinsen, Norway, senior, checks his account to see if his friends or family have e-mailed him. The Information Kiosk located in the Kansas Union provides thousands of students with quick Internet access.
Disney's birthday celebrated
By Tawnya Bach Special to the Kansan
MARCELINE, Mo. — Disney enthusiasts flocked here last weekend as KU students assisted with the celebration of Walt Disney's 100th birthday.
John Tibbetts, associate professor of film studies, said about 60 students signed up to volunteer for the event, which took place in Disney's childhood hometown.
In conjunction with Disney's birthday, Tibbetts is teaching a special seminar course called "Walt Disney and the Commodification of Culture" at the University of Kansas.
recruited students to help with the weekend events.
As an optional class assignment, Tibbetts and Kaye Maulins, event organizer and resident of Marceline,
"Students worked with admissions and parking." Tibbets said. "We even sent a film crew. It was a great opportunity for them. Kaye Maulins told me that she appreciated the help."
Kristen Kautsch, Lawrence junior, was one of the volunteer's from Tibbett's class.
"It was good to see so many different activities offered as part of the celebration," Kautsch said. "Visitors had a lot to choose."
Walt Disney was born on Dec. 5, 1901,
in Chicago and was five years old when he
came here on the Sante Fe railroad.
Maulins said the Disney family lived in her hometown from 1906 to 1910.
The small Missouri town organized several events from Sept. 21 to 23, including tours of Disney's school and historic train depot, barn raising activities, contests and music.
Several world-renowned authors and Disney historians presented seminars in the historic Uptown Theater.
Beverley Solomon, Marceline resident,
said she was pleased with the turnout.
"We had people from everywhere," Solomon said. "Our party would have made Walt Disney proud."
Saturday's crowd was the largest, with between 25,000 and 30,000 people.
Contact Bach at 864-4810
Bell tolls, but for whom changes
By Paul Smith Kansan staff writer
A policy restricting access to the Campanile has been implemented this semester to secure the tower and the carillon it houses.
The department of music and dance in the School of Fine Arts drafted the Campanile and Carrillon Usage Agreement, which allows access only to students of the University carillonneur.
Non-student carillonneurs who are certified by the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America must pay a $120 fee every four months for up to four hours of access to the carillon each week.
department chairman, said students from previous years had not always returned their keys to the Campanile when their studies on the carillon finished.
The carillon is a keyboard-like instrument that sounds a series of bells, which weigh as much as seven tons, in the belfry. The carillon housed in the Campanile is the only one of its kind in Kansas.
"We've had keys out there for years," Mallett said. "We don't know who's been going up there, believe it or not."
The keys to the tower were changed this summer with a number padlock also installed on the door leading to the playing cabin.
Larry Mallett, music and dance
Mallett said the Campanile policy was based on policies governing usage in other recital halls.
"There will be no change to students in the program," Mallett said. "The real issue here is students who have studied here in the past want to have access to the instrument."
Elizabeth Berghoult, University carillonneur, said that when she was hired last year, she wanted to allow carillon-
neurs in the Lawrence area to have access to the instrument and this service necessitated an agreement.
However, the new policy has kept Sharon Hettinger, a certified carillonneur, from practicing.
"It's the first time that I know of that there's been a policy for practicing," said Hettinger, a former carillon student who received her doctorate of musical arts in organ performance from the University in 1993.
Hettinger said she planned to submit an application and pay the usage fee.
Berghout said she had 12 students this semester. Each student required about four hours of practice each week in addition to one hour of class. She estimated there could be six other certified carillonneurs in the Lawrence area.
New policy to prohibit pornographic publications in prisons
Contact Smith at 864-4810
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Hardoree pornography is already banned in Massachusetts prisons, and now corrections officials want to extend that ban to Playboy, Penthouse and almost any other publication featuring nudity.
Officials said they were making the change because they feared sexually explicit material "desensitizes" inmates and made them more likely to engage in inappropriate sexual conduct around staff.
The material also makes it more difficult to treat prisoners
convicted of sex crimes, said Justin Latini, Department of Corrections representative.
Latini said the a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year encouraged prison officials to institute the ban. The ruling rejected the claim of an Arizona inmate who said a ban on Playboy violated his rights.
"If you want to rea a
Still, free speech activists said the move treated on the First Amendment rights of prisoners.
those kinds of magazines, leave the
"It's simply a way to be tough on prisoners. It's politically popular." said Kara Gotsch, public policy coordinator for the
people in your neighborhood alone and stay out of jail."
Thomas M. Hodgson
Bristo County House of Correction Sheriff
National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union
"Just because you are locked up doesn't mean you lose all your rights. And your First Amendment right is
one you should maintain," she said.
one you should maintain, sife said. Other states have already cracked down on inmates' access to sexually explicit publications. Oregon, Minnesota and South Dakota have all passed laws in recent years barring adult materials from prisons.
Within Massachusetts, some inmates are already blocked from receiving magazines featuring nudity.
receiving At the Bristol County House of Correction, Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson initiated a policy against the magazines, saying they are inappropriate in a jail setting.
"When you're in prison, the
reality is that you don't have the opportunity to enjoy the same rights that law-abiding citizens do," he said. "If you want to read those kinds of magazines, leave the people in your neighborhood alone and stay out of jail."
State prison regulations now say that "publications may not be excluded solely because they contain sexually explicit material or feature nudity." and that "explicit heterosexual material will ordinarily be admitted."
The proposed regulations would rescind those rules but
still allow "material illustrative of medical, educational or anthropological content."
William Lyon of the Free Speech Coalition, the trade association of the nation's $12-billion-a year adult entertainment industry, called the proposed ban "stupid."
"If you want to control the libido of a lot of men who are incarcerated in order to stop them from getting a little too feisty, why would you keep this kind of material from them?" he said. "If they are sexually satisfied, they are not going to be as rebellious."
Have you wondered if these ads are true? This is what KU Golden Key students found out:
Students surveyed were demographically representative of the diverse ethnic backgrounds majors, ages and living environments of KU students.
Students reported partying an average of 5 hours at a time, so most KU students drink about one drink/hour. The liver needs one hour to metabolize one drink.
MOST KU
STUDENTS DRINK MODERATELY OR NOT AT ALL 0-5 DRINKS WHEN TheyParty*
About one drink per hour over a 5 hour period
67% of KU Students set a limit on the number of drinks they will have.
*Based on survey responses from 1,608 KU students. Survey administered by the KU Office of Institutional Research & Planning (2001).
"0-5" was
determined by surveying 1,608 students in their classes, which we learned is more people than surveyed for most political polls!
A "drink" was defined on the survey as 12 oz. beer,4.5 oz.wine or 1-1.5 oz.liquor.